Travelog for: Mister Snow

What a fun day! A new Toy Voyager arrived! After we opened the package, Plaid Moose poked his head in to say hello!

It's Summy! She was visiting Florida, and is now going to spend a few weeks with us! We were all excited to see her!

Well, I have had a fantastic trip to Virginia. But it's time for my next adventure. Mara says I'm heading to Alaska! I'm sad to say goodbye to my friends here, but I hear that Alaska might be a more suitable location for a snowman in the summer! I gave all my friends a big group hug goodbye, then I climbed into my luggage for the trip! The post office says it will be a quick trip (less than a week)...hopefully the airplane will be refrigerated!

Mister Snow has arrived in Alaska just in time for spring!  Here are some photos of my son playing with him. We will be taking him to Anchorage tomorrow and outside to play.  We are surrounded by mountains so I am sure there will be some beautiful scenery in the background. Next week we fly to Oklahoma and plan on taking him with us there as well.  (it's tornado season there so he has to be careful)

Alas, he missed both the ice sculptures here and the snow, it's all gone now.  But while I can't get him to Iceland, next year I may be able to get him to Antartica if he comes back for a visit.  My husband will be on an ice breaker for the US Coast Guard and that is one of their planned destinations right now.  : )  I don't know if they will stop in New Zealand or Australia on the way but they might.

One more photo from today. : )

Skippy the Chihuahua meets Mister Snow.  It was love at first sight. 

We went on vacation to Oklahoma and took Mr. Snow along.  Here are some photos of him at Lake Hess feeding the carp and catfish.  (He was a little nervous about falling in and being eaten but we assured him it was fine).

Also a photo of him with my dd in front of the outdoor amphitheater in Clinton, OK. 

He also went to the OKC zoo with us but it was soooo hot he stayed in the backpack and we didn't get a pic of him as we were worried he would melt.

We are back in Alaska now and will get a few more shots of him around town and then send him on his way. : )

This is my girl scout brownie troop 356 of the Susitna Council in Alaska.  We met at Super Suppers today and the girls got to make braided stuffed pizzas and monkey bread to take home to their families.  It was great fun and delicious too! 
Here is Mr Snow enjoying all the fun.

So sorry for the late posting but had to share the ones of Mr. Snow in the snow.  We didn't build any snowman sorry, didn't have time and we missed the ice sculptures as we had a warming spell and they melted quickly. But I think he enjoyed his time here.

We miss Mr Snow but it looks like he is quite the world traveler and having a great time.  Happy Journeying, Mr. Snow! 

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Finally I arrived in Hamburg about two weeks ago. I met a TV called Finja here and she is a little bear. Really short after my arrival we made our first trip to a forrest called "Sachsenwald". It was really beautiful because everywhere we could see the first signs of spring and everything was green again. We enjoyed some time next to a lake.


Then we walked through the forrest until we came to a place called "Garden of Butterflies" but they have a lot more to see there. First we went into a glasshouse were we saw a chameleon and a lot of beautiful fish.


After this we finally went into the house were the butterflies were living. It was really warm inside and a lot of butterflies were flying around. The most beautiful was a big blue one but he never sat still so we couldn't make a photo with him. It was generally hard to get a photo with a butterfly so we took some photos with the nice plants and you can see the butterflies more in the background.



But we were lucky and this beautiful butterfly sat still quite long.

Around the houses there was a great garden and we spent some time with relaxing there.




The last thing we watched before we went home were these rabbits. They enjoyed the sun like we did.

When we arrived home we were really tired and went to bed early.
Jenny told me that the harbour of Hamburg celebrates its birthday soon and perhaps we will go there. It would be very beautiful to see a lot of ships. I am a bit sad that Finja couldn't go with us because she has to leave for Hong Kong.

Bye,
Mister Snow

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Today we went to the "Hafengeburtstag". In Hamburg they celebrate the birtday of the harbour every year. This year it is the 820th birthday. We saw many beautiful ships and there were many people. When we arrived at the harbour I could only see ships, they were everywhere

We then went down to see the Russian ship "MIR". Jenny likes it very much. Right next to the MIR was a German ship.


On our way back over the bridge we saw a fire ship and a very old sailing boat.


Everywhere on the water were small boats cruising.

We also saw the "Rickmer Rickmers". It is an old sailing ship which is always in the harbour of Hamburg and used as a museum. But once a year it makes a short trip to prove that it is still able to sail around the world.

After this we went down to the water again and we saw the theater of the musical "The Lion King".


On our way through the harbour we saw a lot more ships. Some small boats which are used to carry tourists through the harbour, another Russian sailing ship, a warship and a cruiser.





On our way home we walked through Hamburg and visited some more sights. First we came along the St. Michaelis church. In Hamburg they just call it "Michel" and it is the main church there. Unfortunately they are working on it right now and we could just see the tower.

We then came to the St.Nikolai church. It was destroyed in the Second World War and just the tower remains today. In the past it was one of the main churches in the old Hamburg but its importance was fading also before the war.



The last thing we visisted was the town hall of Hamburg. The photos are not so good because the light from the sun disturbed the camera.


After all this walking around in Hamburg I am very tired but I think I stay up because there will be fireworks in the harbour and perhaps we will go there or see it from the window. But I don't think we will take pictures, just enjoy the lights.

Bye,
Mister Snow

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Last week Jenny took me on a trip to Würzburg and  Czech Republic with her. She went there with university to visit some factories which produces food or drink.
We started in Würzburg, a city in South Germany. We went there by train and we had some fun in the train. I could look out of the window for the main part of the trip.


When we arrived in Würzburg we first brought our luggage to the youth hostel.

After that we went to the inner city. We went over a great bridge. The river is called "Main" and there were many statues on the bridge and really many people.


After we looked at the strange orange and red church wen went back to the Main and walked along the bank. We had a great view to the castle from there.




We also had a great view over Würzburg from there.


After a while we came back to the bridge and could have a look up from the river at it.


We had a short break then and after it we walked up to the castle. It was a really steep way. They grow wine along the way as it seems to be a good place for wine there.


We also saw some cute little flowers along the way.

After a while we arrived up at the castle and we had a great view over Würzburg.


Of course we had a look at the castle as well. It was great and I couldn't imagine that any attacker will be able to get in.

The next day we went to Veitshöchheim near Würzburg to visit the Bavarian institute of gardening or something like that. It was very beautiful there as they grow many flowers and everything was very colourful.


The institute was a bit higher than the town and so we had a great look over it.

In a small pool we also discovered a frog.

After we have seen all in the institute we went back to Würzburg and fetched the luggage to go the Czech Republic by train.

We went by train to Plzen and chnaged trains there to go to Ceske Budejovice. We didn't have much time in this places so there is only one photo from the main station in Plzen.

We visited the bruery from Budweis in Ceske Budejovice and it was really interesting.
From there we continued to Jindrichuv Hradec.

Jindrichuv Hradec is a really small town in Czech Republic but it is really lovely. The train station is really small without real platforms.

We went to the hostel from the station and we had to walk about half an hour. After we left our luggage in the hostel we went to explore the little town. We came along this church and arrived at the market place.


They also have a little lake in Jindrichuv Hradec.

Our hostel was also really lovely in a little lane and we had this beautiful lantern in front of our room.

The next day we went to visit a producer of spirituoses but we weren't allowed to take photos there. We had a little time left afterwards and had a short look at the castle.

I would have liked to have a closer look but we had to fetch our train to Prague. We arrived in Prague in the evening and the next morning we took again a train to go to Kladno, not far from Prague.

In Kladno we visited Dr. Oetker. We weren't allowed to take photos there too. But it was really interesting. They produce everything for Czech Republic and Slowakia there that consists of powders. When we get in, everything smells like vanillin and I fear I had the smell afterwards, too.



Kladno also has one of these small train stations with no platforms. On this photo it is much better seen than on the one from Jindrichuv Hradec.

From Kladno we went back to Prague to visit two more stations on that day.